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Catablog of the Prints and Photographs Collection @ the Library of VirginiaMon, 02 Feb 2015 16:17:35 -0500hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.1By: Laurence Allenhttp://www.virginiamemory.com/blogs/multiple_exposure/2011/06/27/dugald-stewart-walker-bookplate-collection/comment-page-1/#comment-35313
Sat, 25 Oct 2014 03:31:20 +0000http://www.virginiamemory.com/blogs/multiple_exposure/?p=179#comment-35313To Dennis Smith… My parents told me that my Grandfather, Harry Allen Jr., who co-owned a stamp business in Richmond around 1920-1930′s?, engaged Dugald Stewart Walker to draw pencil prints representing each branch of the US Military, to present to the US Post Office for a US military memorial stamp set contest. My recollection is that granddads’ entries, drawn by Mr. Walker, won and were used for the new military, memorial stamps. Growing up, we had two, framed, original pencil drawings by Walker, and per my parents final wishes, in 2005, they were entrusted to the care of a relative, who has the other original prints from the contest. My father entrusted me with his fathers’ stamp collection some twenty years ago. I remember him telling me that his father would go to the Post Office whenever a new stamp was being offered, and he would buy the corner of a sheet of new stamps with a serial number. I remember my father also talking about the “first day covers” in the collection I have. I hope to find time soon to start the process of identifying the items in the stamp collection. Currently, I am researching family history, including my great grandfather, Captain Harry Allen who served in the US Army as a marching drill Officer in the 1870′s and 1880′s. I just last week, visited the family burial plot in Greenwood Va. where four generations of my relatives are buried. If your Walker “first day covers” are the military stamps, I hope this information may help you with your question about your first day covers. Feel free to contact me via e-mail if I can help further. Laurence Allen
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Tue, 05 Mar 2013 17:22:09 +0000http://www.virginiamemory.com/blogs/multiple_exposure/?p=179#comment-9I have what may be a pen and ink or a plate from
Dream Boats 12×16 inches but have no idea as to its value . Any clues
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Sat, 14 Jul 2012 21:25:52 +0000http://www.virginiamemory.com/blogs/multiple_exposure/?p=179#comment-8I am trying to find out more about Dugald Stewart Walker. I have a collection of First Day Covers dating back to the 1930s. I have 10 FDCs with cachets by Stewart from 1937. I would like any information that could point me in the right direction.
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